For someone who was retired for several years and only had months to train, Pacquiao gave a great show. To be honest, I didn't expect it to be a draw, I thought it would either be a win or a loss for Pacquiao (I already saw people saying Pacquiao won the fight tho ahaha). Also, you can see in this fight how age has caught up to Pacquiao.
Pacquiao wasn’t so dominant, but it was clear he was ahead on the scorecards that he landed the cleaner and heavier shots on Barrios. Still, a draw is fine I guess. It just means Pacman’s effort wasn’t enough to take the belt this time. In the rematch, which Barrios already said he’s open to, I hope Manny goes all out from start to finish. Now that he’s no longer busy with politics, he can really focus on the fight.
Yes, I do think that Manny was robbed again in this fight, for me he should be ahead in points as he control the latter part of the fight. And I don't think that Barrios leads or did better in the championship fights as others might have suggested. So I can't imagine those two judges, they didn't see that Manny is scoring and getting the better of Barrios. You can see the disappointment on Manny and some of his fans as we all know that he could have really be the winner and his hands should be the only one being raised. I have nothing against Barrios, but as what we have speculated, he is the weakest of the 147 lbs. So he remain the champion, but we will have to see what will be the next stage on Manny. He is still well love by fans around the world and I think he can still give us a good fight.
After the fight ends many people and even some analyst say that Pacquaio really won that fight. But guess they cannot do anything now since that is the judge decision and maybe people should be happy that Pacquaio is fine then getting huge after the fight ends.
Although we could really see that Pacquaio slows down but we could still see that he still lots of power in his bag. So maybe this is not the end and provably we could see him seeking for another great fight. Barrios remain the champion but for sure many people will criticize him for thinking that Pacquaio won that fight.